Improved hoisting-apparatus



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` Letters` `Patent No. 104,567, datedzunc 21, 1870.

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l The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

ToV 'all whom it may concern y Be it known that I, Onrvnn H. Fnoorg of Middletovvn, in the county of Frederick and State of Maryland, have invented a new and improved Device for IIoisting; and Ido hereby declare the "following to be a full and'correct description of the same, suicient to enable others skilled in the class to which my invention appertains to fully understand and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing whichmakes part.ofthislspecificatiom and in which the iig ure is an elevation of my` improved hoisting device. My invention consists in a device, -for hoisting and suspending articles, which, for preservation, or any vother reason, are to be kept in an elevatedsuspended i position. It is especially applicable for hoisting and suspen'din'ganimalsin slaughter-houses, but may Abe *V applied to many other purposes.

A represents ay platform made movable by being placed on wheels or rollers, a, and from which risesthe i standard B 'of a suitable height, for the purpose desired.

` Secured to this standard, near its upper end, are arms,l O, provided at their outer'l ends with notches, b.

` Itisingfrom the top of the standard B, `and moving laterally around apin or bolt, c, is a sWivel,'D,tbe arms, d, of which, extending upwardly, form a bearin g for the lever E pivoted between them.

Thislever has a shorter arm, c, and a longer one, f,

`each of nhich is at its end provided with hooks, g h, respectively, while ou `the shorter arm there are other hooks,` fi, for a use to be hereinafter explained.

` 'y Iwill describe thense and operation of my device in a slaughter-house. r

An animal having been killed, and it becoming necessary to suspend it for the purpose of cleaning it, the device may-be rolled to the animal and one end ofthe chain j Asecured at each end of thc gambrel, bywhich the animal is to be suspended.

A rope being attached to the hook h of the arm f of lever E, this arm is pulled down, thereby elevating lthe shorter arm e, `to which the animal is attached, un-

` til the gambrel or the string or chain attached to` and forming partv of the latter, can be slippedover the arm C, to which it is to be hung.v The ends of chain j are then slipped oi from the ends of the gambrel, and another animal may be elevated and hung on another arm, O,.until all arms are full. Should it be desired to hold anything temporarily suspended Without placing it on an arm, C, the rope passing through hook h may' bese'cured to the standard'B, keeping the arm f down and the arm e in an elevated position. J

-rEhe manner of weighing an article suspended on the arm C, without letting it down to the ground, is as follows:

An iron scale-beam isseenred to citherhook *ifas may be most suitable. In dra-wing I show the manner ofweighing a but-chered animal.

chain j being slipped over the ends-of the gambrel, the 'latter is raised and its string or chain slipped from the arm O ou to thehook of the scale-beam; the arm f being secured by the rope passing through hook h to;v

The ends oi the standard, the weighing can be done, and by .releasing thearm f the article weighed can be'casily replaced on its arm C.

'lhe utility of my improved hoisting device ivill be appa-rent without any further explanations.

Having thus described my invent-ion,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Lctf.

lVitncsses EznA MINNICK, CHARLES NV; KELLER. 

